Note: Verses are formatted with periods, i.e., "Genesis 1.1".
To only view quotations from a certain Bible version, append the version id in parenthesis after a verse number, e.g., "Genesis 1.1 (AKJV)".
The version ids are "AKJV", "ODRV", "Geneva", "Vulgate", "Douay-Rheims", "Tyndale", "Wycliffe".
These are the book spellings that this site uses:
Reference prominence
Rather than examine the frequency or proportion of references, it is far more useful to determine which
references are most prominent for a citing entity.
The visualizations below show the most prominent scriptural references within all publications per year.
Prominence, displayed as the value below each label, is measured using the metric of Outgoing Relative
Citational Prominence (ORCP) proposed by Wahle et al. (2023).
In this case, a positive prominence value for a reference R in a given year means that
R constitutes a greater percentage of all the references cited by publications in that year
than the average citation percentage of R per year.
A negative value indicates that a given reference constitutes a proportion lesser than average.
A value of negative infinity means that the query reference does not occur in the citation or QP of a citing entity.
A value of "%" (without any numeral value) means that there are no citations or QP corresponding to the query reference.
However, note that the number of TCP transcriptions varies widely and may be very sparse for certain years, so this metric only reflects reference prominence
for limited subsets of publications.
To see the publications, authors, years, eras, publication places, and subject headings that mention a reference most prominently, search for that reference above.
More research is forthcoming on the most prominent references for different preaching occasions, preaching locations, and publishers after these data are cleaned or annotated.
For quotational prominence, only the predictions with the highest cosine similarity scores for each subsegmented or whole unit of a segment or note
are included for consideration. The average quotational prominence for a citing entity is the mean of the prominence percentage points
for all references R_ALL that are relevant to the query reference such that each reference R in R_ALL
has the highest cosine similarity score with a part or the whole of its covering body segment or marginal note.
For citational prominence, only pluasible scriptural citations and ones where the original phrase does not begin with a lowercase word are
included for consideration. A scriptural citation is plausible if its numbering exists in any of the Bibles considered
by this project. There are over 76 thousand such excluded candidates out of 1.2 million parsed citational units in total.
Due to their large amounts of data, the charts below take a while to load.
Press the play button on the time slider to view the animation, and filter using the dropdown menu on the top left
to see the prominence of different books, chapters, verses, and parts of the Bible over time.
